https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/19/new_orleans_facial_recognition/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/19/live-facial-recognition-police-new-orleans/
Since early 2023, facial recognition cameras run by a private nonprofit have scanned New Orleans visitors and residents and quietly alerted police, sidestepping oversight and potentially violating city law, according to a new report. … The police were required to notify the city council each time they used facial recognition technology in an investigation or arrest, but reportedly failed to do so. In multiple cases, police reports omitted any mention of the technology, raising concerns that defendants were denied the opportunity to challenge the role facial recognition played in their arrest. …
The use of facial recognition is bad enough… sidestepping the “Stats, Rules, Oversight” controls is even worse…
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